Show MELVIN PITT SAYS IT WAS NO JOKE confirms richardsons Richard sons story of the shooting on lake fork bench niel mel pitt was az in vernal last saturday and lie ho waz waa sought after to lic hear ar his version of tho the shooting md doean doesn t leavo any doubt in ones mind about where ho stands he says dave daie lU Iti chardon Is fea tind and it la is due to his alertness that lie he la fix alive today ahe I 1 he shooting on en like lake rork fork took place all light says saya me ale and no ae had a tate of it and lie he la Is willing to believe all the test lest of ct it ho he it if richardson hayi it occurred there has been considerable said pro and con about the reservation shooting affair some have insisted anat the whole thing was waa a farce while others said there might have been to the lake fork shir skirmishes but doubted the truthful ness of tho the uintah river shooting we have hae had our eagle eyo eye open for any corroboration of the story as printed in the express and we me have haie talked mith ow ong man niel mel pitt atho mite emphatically affirms tho lie details of the shooting on the lake I 1 oi 01 k bench and waa mas an eye witness to some come of it lie he saas ho be does not care whether we believe the story of the shooting out we ought not to cast reflections upon those who were there tor for they know mel pitt says there will mill be it new nen erae raie found in that country some of these days tor for there is a man missing and pitt would like to know here where he Is sessions eaid that the indian buckskin uck skin told him lie he had seen the run running ining fight on the uintah bottoms we wish to say eay this we gave gaie the elory as aa nearly correct as we As could get tt it and wo me have ho reason to doubt mr air Richard richardson sons a word mord and hla his closest friends ea ho he Is 13 1 3 iel lable itt says the bullet hole m wai not in richardson a saddle when lie he left lak fork the sheriff has made a diligent search and be has found nothing to work ork on en in uintah county and lie he has not been in wasatch Va satch county when dai dae e richardson chardson lU returns from colorado we me would mould think it a good thing for him to go with the alic tiff to the scene of the shooting 0 |